Thanks for sharing your course, Steven. That looks like a fun class. Adam, I like to think that in my own course at SVA, and the others in the curriculum, we are going *way* afield of Polar Bears, far beyond O'Reilly and New Riders. And for god's sake, no Maeda. I'd love to run the curriculum by you to see what you think is missing (or misincluded). The usual suspects are there, but as with Steven's course, they're well escorted.
So, to a lot of people I think your article feels a lot like a strawman argument, against a boogieman we simply don't recognize. I suspect you see your own pet topics of urbanism and architecture insufficiently represented in the UX conversation, and in the fog of your disappointment you (seemingly) overlook all the other fields frequently crossing this fields' collective lips: psychology, game studies, graphic design, anthropology, literature, theater, business (sorry), biology, cartography, cybernetics, information theory, the list goes on and on. I've pored over the curricula for over a dozen other IxD academic programs over the past two years, and I've been surprised at the diversity of the foundational material. Yes, it could be even broader. And yes yes, the discourse of the active profession (this list) could draw on that material more, rather than seeming to leave it to academia. Insofar as your post calls for that, I concur. What is off-putting is the idea that you can judge a person, in any way, by their "following" list or even their bookshelf. I didn't expect such sentiments from you, especially the former. Cheers, -Cf Christopher Fahey Principal / User Experience Director ____________________________ Behavior biz: http://www.behaviordesign.com me: http://www.graphpaper.com ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [email protected] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
